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TOY PISTOL Patented Oct. 4,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. STREET, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y., AND GEORGE W. EDDY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONN; SAID EDDY ASSIGNOR TO SAID STREET.

TOY PISTOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,965, dated October 4, 1881.

Application filed February 12, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES G. S'IREET, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, and GEORGE W. EDDY, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Arm of which the following is a specification.

Our improvements relate particularly to toy fire-arms, though they may prove ad vantageons to fire-arms generally.

An important object of the improvements is to lessen the danger attending the loading of fire-arms by reducing the liability ot'accidental firing during that operation.

The improvements consist in the combination, in a fire-arm, of a barrel provided at the breech end with a finger-piece extending from it, whereby itmay be tilted out of the position it occupiesin use to facilitate loading, and a trigger provided with a forwardly-extending nose-piece adapted to engage with said fingerpiece and thereby rel ain the barrel tilted, whereby handling of the barrel to keep it in a tilted position is obviated.

They also consist in the combination, in a. fire-arm, of a trigger and a tilting barrel pro vided at the rear end witha finger-piece extending from it, which, when the barrel is tilted out of a position for use, obtrude-s itself in front of the upper end of the trigger, and thereby prevents the trigger from being actuated so as to release the hammer.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a toy pistol embodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is a. sectional side view of the same, showing the barrel tilted, in dotted outline; and Fig. 3 is a sectional side view of a slightly modified form of the pistol, also showjo=jing the barrel tilted, in dotted outline.

A designates the handle or stock of the pistol. B designates the hammer, and 0 designates the trigger.

D designates a barrel pivoted by trunnions a between two cheeks, A, so that it may be tilted, as shown in dotted outline in Figs. 2 and (No model.)

3, to expose its breech end to facilitate loading. The hammer is actuated by a spring, E, in a well-known manner, and the trigger has its lower end impelled forward by a spring, F, so as to cause its upper end to engage with the hammer and retain it in position-when cocked. The rear or breech portion of the barrel D is provided with a device, G, which we term afinger-piece, rigidly connected with the bar re] and extendingdown wardly from it, and preferably ha ring its rear face approximately eoncentric with the trunnions a of the barrel. This finger-piece projects through the stock of the pistol in front-ct and near the trigger, where it may be reached by the forefinger and impelled upward hypulling it backward and at the same time. slightly pushing it upward. This fingerpiece may, therefore, be inanipir lated in a manner very similar to the manipulation of an ordinary trigger in order to tilt the barrel. The finger-piece Gr isjnade of such a length that, even when the barrel is tilted, it will project sufiiciently below the stock to enable the finger to act upon it.

H designates a spring consisting, as here shown, of a flat piece of steel which has bearings in the stock of the pistol and impinges at the forward end against the under side of the barrel forward of its trunnions. When the barrel is tilted this spring is bent, and it will by itsresiliencc return the barrel to and maintain itin its normal position-or, in other words, the position it occupies in use. The'fin erpiece G projects slightly rearward of thei ar-' rel, and is provided. with a shoulder, 11, which will engage with a projection, c, on the stock, when the barrel is tilted, to prevent itfrom being tilted too far.

The trigger O is furnished with a nose, d, extending forward, so that it may bear against the rear face of the fingerpiece G when the barrel is tilted, and retain the barrel in a tilted position. It will be observed, by reference to the dotted outline of the triggerin Figs. 2 and 3, representing it in its forward position, that its upper end, where the nose (1 is located, can be moved slightly forward to impinge against the rear face of the finger-piece without becom' ing disengaged from and releasing the hammer B. For this reason, not only does the trigger subserve the extraordinary function of retaining the barrel in a til ted position to facilitate loading, but the finger-piece also subserves the purpose of preventing the trigger from releasing the hammer while the barrel is tilted, The only difi'erence between the pistol shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and that shown in Fig. 3 is that in the former the nose at of the trigger holds the barrel in a tilted position byits frictional contact with the finger-piece, whereas in the latter the said nose holds the barrel in a tilted position by engaging with a notch on the under side of a projection, e, at the rear face of the fin ger-piece.

To load either pistol the hammer is first coeked,the barrel is then tilted by ushing up the finger-piece, and the barrel is kept tilted either by holding the finger-piece, or the lower end ofthe trigger is pulled back to force the nose at its upper end in contact with the rear face of the finger-piece, whereupon the trigger, if held fast, will retain the barrel in a tilted position. When the loading of the barrel is accomplished the finger-piece is let go, or the lower end of the trigger is released slightly to allow its nose to recede from the finger-piece snfliciently to release it and allow the spring H t return the barrel to itsnormal position. Afterward thelower end of the trigger is pulled back to release the hammer and fire-the ammunition in the pistol.

It will be seen that by our invention the necessity for handling the muzzle oi the barrels of breech loading fire-arms while loading them is obviated, and that the hands of the person using such fire-arms will'be so occupied as to be kept away from the muzzles. Owing to this the danger attending the use of such fire-arms is greatly reduced.

The finger-piece may, if desirable, have a spiral or other spring arranged upon it-,be tween a shoulder or head at or near its lower end and the stock of the pistol, to return the barrel to its normal position for use.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a fire-arm, the combination of a barrel provided at the breech end with a fingerpiece extending from it, whereby it may be tilted out of the position it occupies in use to facilitateloading, and a trigger provided with a forwardly-extending nose-piece adapted to engage with said finger-piece, and thereby retain the barrel tilted, substantially as specified.

2. In afirenrin, the combination of a trigger and a tilting barrel provided at the rear end with a finger-piece extending from it, which, when the barrel is tilted out of a position for use, obtrudes itself in front of the upper end of the trigger, and thereby prevents the trigger from being actuated so as to release the hammer, substantially as specified.

CHAS. G; STREET.

GEO. W. EDDY.

Witnesses: EDWIN H. BROWN, T. J. KEANE. 

